The warning helped, but Meche still wasn't quite fast enough, especially since she had to bring the spear down a little to cover her thigh. This time she flinched slightly too, almost putting Alita's spear point into her leg by herself. It was hard to get her body to stand its ground with a weapon coming right at it. Even when she knew it was just practice, her first instinct was still to try to get out of there.

She recovered and brought her spear back up again. "Sorry. They say third time's the charm, though."